Popihuise - Vuyo Mabheka kids art and creativity

art and creativity

Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks

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And in the journey that follows

Popihuise - Vuyo Mabheka kids art and creativityThe Afrikaans word pophuis refers to a dollhouse game familiar to children. Vuyo Mabheka builds the Popihuise series based on this game, using cutouts from rare childhood photos of himself. He creates interiors and scenes where he appears, sometimes accompanied by imaginary friends represented by people from his community whom he has secretly photographed, and sometimes in the presence of a fantasised and faceless father figure. The series features a